Successful treatment of a case with NUT midline carcinoma in the larynx and review of the literature

• Published in: Clinical case reports Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 176 - 181
• Main Authors: Zhang, Hai, Liu, Ming‐Hua, Zhang, Jie, Luo, Shu‐Peng, Wang, Chao‐Bo, Zhao, Zeng‐Hu, Ge, Yan‐Li, Zhang, Jian‐Yu, Geng, Feng‐Hao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.01.2020; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Age; Case Report; Case Reports; Chemotherapy; Chinese medicine; Clinical outcomes; Dissection; Drug dosages; Family medical history; Hospitals; intensity‐modulated radiation therapy; Larynx; Lasers; Lymphatic system; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical prognosis; Metastasis; NUT midline carcinoma; Pain; Patients; Proteins; Radiation therapy; successful treatment; Surgery; traditional Chinese medicine; larynx; traditional Chinese medicine; intensity‐modulated radiation therapy; successful treatment; NUT midline carcinoma
• ISSN: 2050-0904; 2050-0904
• DOI: 10.1002/ccr3.2568

In this report, we gave the first case of successful treatment for laryngeal NMC, which is exceedingly rare with dismal prognosis. intensity‐modulated radiation therapy accompanied by traditional Chinese medicine was administrated for the young woman, instead of radical resection, and she got continuous remission for more than 2 years, with no recurrence detected. In this report, we gave the first case of successful treatment for laryngeal NMC, which is exceedingly rare with dismal prognosis. intensity‐modulated radiation therapy accompanied by traditional Chinese medicine was administrated for the young woman, instead of radical resection, and she got continuous remission for more than 2 years, with no recurrence detected.